Kubernetes Namespaces Are Not as Secure as You Think

In a previous article, we described how the usage of namespaces in Kubernetes significantly simplifies the management of a Kubernetes cluster. However, managing multiple microservices on the same cluster comes with a security cost when not planned correctly. A common misconception around namespac...

SonicWall SNWLID-2021-0001 Zero-Day and SolarWinds’ 2021 CVE Trifecta: What You Need to Know

Not content with the beating it laid down in January, 2021 continues to deliver with an unpatched zero-day exposure in some SonicWall appliances and three moderate-to-critical CVEs in SolarWinds software. We dig into the details below. Urgent mitigations required for SonicWall SMA 100 Series...

SonicWall Recommends Urgent Patching for GMS and Analytics CVEs

On Wednesday, July 12, 2023, security firm SonicWall published an urgent security advisory warning customers of 15 new vulnerabilities affecting on-premise instances of their Global Management System GMS and Analytics products. Four of the vulnerabilities carry critical severity ratings:...

CVE-2023-34362: MOVEit Vulnerability Timeline of Events

The following article was written by Drew Burton and Cynthia Wyre. Rapid7 continues to track the impact of CVE-2023-34362, a critical zero-day vulnerability in Progress Software’s MOVEit Transfer solution. CVE-2023-34362 allows for SQL injection, which can result in unauthorized access to sensiti...

[Security Nation] Rob Graham on Mike Lindell's Cyber Symposium

!\Security Nation\ Rob Graham on Mike Lindell's Cyber Symposiumhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/09/securitynationlogo-1.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod chat with Rob Graham of Errata Security about his experience attending pillow magnate Mike Lindell's Cyber...

CVE-2021-20025: SonicWall Email Security Appliance Backdoor Credential

The virtual, on-premises version of the SonicWall Email Security Appliance ships with an undocumented, static credential, which can be used by an attacker to gain root privileges on the device. This is an instance of CWE-798: Use of Hard-coded Credentials, and has an estimated CVSSv3 score of 9.1...

Rapid7's 2021 ICER Takeaways: Email Security Among the Fortune 500

This blog post covers key takeaways from our 2021 Industry Cyber-Exposure Report ICER: Fortune 500. Original analysis for these findings was conducted by Kwan Lin. We all know and love—or at least begrudgingly rely upon—email. It is a pillar of modern communications, but is unfortunately also...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 06/21/2024

Argument Injection for PHP on Windows This week includes modules that target file traversal and arbitrary file read vulnerabilities for software such as Apache, SolarWinds and Check Point, with the highlight being a module for the recent PHP vulnerability submitted by sfewer-r7. This module...

Velociraptor 0.7.2 Release: Digging Deeper than Ever with EWF Support, Dynamic DNS and More

By Dr. Mike Cohen and Carlos Canto Rapid7 is very excited to announce that version 0.7.2 of Velociraptor is now fully available for download. In this post we’ll discuss some of the interesting new features. EWF Support Velociraptor has introduced the ability to analyze dead disk images in the pas...

CVE-2024-0394: Rapid7 Minerva Armor Privilege Escalation (FIXED)

Rapid7 is disclosing CVE-2024-0394, a privilege escalation vulnerability in Rapid7 Minerva’s Armor product family. Minerva uses the open-source OpenSSL library for cryptographic functions and to support secure communications. The root cause of this vulnerability is Minerva’s implementation of...

Explanation of New Authenticated Scanning PCI DSS Requirement 11.3.1.2 in PCI DSS V4.0 and how InsightVM can help meet the Requirement

By: Dominick Vitolo, VP of Security Services, MegaplanIT As a Certified Qualified Security Assessor QSA company and a trusted Rapid7 partner, MegaplanIT is committed to guiding organizations through the complexities of compliance and security standards. PCI DSS version 4.0 is a significant update...

Fake Update Utilizes New IDAT Loader To Execute StealC and Lumma Infostealers

Technical Analysis by: Thomas Elkins, Natalie Zargarov Contributions: Evan McCann, Tyler McGraw Recently, Rapid7 observed the Fake Browser Update lure tricking users into executing malicious binaries. While analyzing the dropped binaries, Rapid7 determined a new loader is utilized in order to...

CVE-2022-47966: Rapid7 Observed Exploitation of Critical ManageEngine Vulnerability

Emergent threats evolve quickly, and as we learn more about this vulnerability, this blog post will evolve, too. Rapid7 is responding to various compromises arising from the exploitation of CVE-2022-47966, a pre-authentication remote code execution RCE vulnerability impacting at least 24 on-premi...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Spring Cloud Gateway RCE This week, a new module that exploits a code injection vulnerability in Spring Cloud Gateway CVE-2022-22947 has been added by @Ayantaker. Versions 3.1.0 and 3.0.0 to 3.0.6 are vulnerable if the Gateway Actuator endpoint is enabled, exposed and unsecured. The module sends ...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

Bofloader - Windows Meterpreter Gets Beacon Object File Loader Support This week brings a new and frequently requested feature to the Windows Meterpreter, the Beacon Object File loader. This new extension, bofloader, allows for users to execute Beacon Object Files as written for either Cobalt...

CVE-2022-27511: Citrix ADM Remote Device Takeover

On Monday, June 14, 2022, Citrix published an advisory on CVE-2022-27511, a critical improper access control vulnerability affecting their Application Delivery Management ADM product. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can leverage CVE-2022-27511 to reset administrator credentials to the default...

Unauthenticated CrushFTP Zero-Day Enables Complete Server Compromise

Rapid7 vulnerability researcher Ryan Emmons contributed to this blog. On Friday, April 19, 2024, managed file transfer vendor CrushFTP released information to a private mailing list on a new zero-day vulnerability affecting versions below 10.7.1 and 11.1.0 as well as legacy 9.x versions across al...

High-Risk Vulnerabilities in ConnectWise ScreenConnect

On February 19, 2024 ConnectWise disclosed two vulnerabilities in their ScreenConnect remote access software. Both vulnerabilities affect ScreenConnect 23.9.7 and earlier. Neither vulnerability had a CVE assigned at time of disclosure, but as of February 21, CVEs have been assigned to both issues...

[Security Nation] Curt Barnard on Defaultinator (Black Hat Arsenal Preview)

!\Security Nation\ Curt Barnard on Defaultinator \Black Hat Arsenal Preview\https://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/08/securitynationlogo.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod chat with Curt Barnard, Principal Security Researcher at Rapid7, about a new tool he’ll be presenting a...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

Wowza, a new credential gatherer and login scanner! This week Metasploit Framework gained a credential gatherer for Wowza Streaming Engine Manager. Credentials for this application are stored in a file named admin.password in a known location and the file is readable by default by BUILTIN\Users o...

Primary Arms PII Disclosure via IDOR (FIXED)

Update August 2, 2022: This issue was resolved by Primary Arms the same day Rapid7 published this report, and the IDOR vulnerability appears to be no longer exploitable. The Primary Arms website, a popular e-commerce site dealing in firearms and firearms-related merchandise, suffers from an...

[Security Nation] Philipp Amann on No More Ransom

!\Security Nation\ Philipp Amann on No More Ransomhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/07/securitynationlogo-2.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, we're joined by Philipp Amann of Europol. Jen and Tod chat with Philipp about No More Ransom, a Europol-lead effort to combat ransomware by...

Automated remediation level 4: Actual automation

Let’s get to automatically remediating already! This entry will be the last in our series based on The 4 Levels of Automated Remediation. After the previous 3 steps—where we discussed everything from logging to best practices to account hygiene—it’s time to talk about the actions that really let...

Rapid7 Joins Statement On DMCA Lawsuits Against Security Tools

Rapid7 has joined a statement from members of the cybersecurity community cautioning against using Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act DMCA to suppress beneficial security tools. In the past, Rapid7 has written extensively about DMCA Sec. 1201’s impact on performing independent...

[Security Nation] Megan Stifel and Ciaran Martin discuss the sticky issue of ransomware payments

!\Security Nation\ Megan Stifel and Ciaran Martin discuss the sticky issue of ransomware paymentshttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/05/securitynationlogo.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, we are joined by Ciaran Martin of Oxford University and Megan Stifel of the Cyber Global...

What’s New in InsightVM: Q1 2021 in Review

Are you ready to return to the office? At many companies around the world, plans are being put into place for a phased workforce return to physical offices. With big moves come big changes, which inevitably reveal new vulnerabilities. For many across the security landscape, it’s as if hundreds of...

Introducing the 2020 Vulnerability Intelligence Report: 50 CVEs that Made Headlines in 2020

2020 was a tumultuous year for vulnerability risk management. Defenders had to contend with a growing volume of high-priority security threats, many of them in internet-facing technologies deployed to enable and secure a suddenly remote workforce. New communications from the U.S. National Securit...

Active Exploitation of ZK Framework CVE-2022-36537

Emergent threats evolve quickly, and as we learn more about this vulnerability, this blog post will evolve, too. Rapid7 is aware of active exploitation of CVE-2022-36537 in vulnerable versions of ConnectWise R1Soft Server Backup Manager software. The root cause of the vulnerability is an...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

C is for cookie And that’s good enough for Apache CouchDB, apparently. Our very own Jack Heysel added an exploit module based on CVE-2022-24706 targeting CouchDB prior to 3.2.2, leveraging a special default ‘monster’ cookie that allows users to run OS commands. This fake computer I just made says...

[Security Nation] Richard Kaufmann on Cybersecurity in Home Healthcare

!\Security Nation\ Richard Kaufmann on Cybersecurity in Home Healthcarehttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/08/securitynationlogo.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, we’re joined for the second time! by Richard Kaufmann, CISO at Amedisys, a leading provider of home healthcare. He’ll te...

What's New in InsightIDR: Q2 2021 in Review

This year, we’re focusing on providing customers with more extensibility and customization in InsightIDR — from adding new event sources to completely refreshing our Dashboard and Reporting experience, we’ve made some strides over the last few months. This post offers a closer look at some of the...

SolarWinds SUNBURST Backdoor Supply Chain Attack: What You Need to Know

On Dec. 12, 2020, FireEye provided detailed information on a widespread attack campaign involving a backdoored component of the SolarWinds Orion platform, which is used by organizations to monitor and manage IT infrastructure. FireEye has given the campaign an identifier of UNC2452 and is further...

Metasploit 2024 Annual Wrap-Up

Another year has come and gone, and the Metasploit team has taken some time to review the year’s notable additions. This year saw some great new features added, Metasploit 6.4 released and a slew of new modules. We’re grateful to the community members new and old that have submitted modules and...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 04/26/24

Rancher Modules This week, Metasploit community member h00die added the second of two modules targeting Rancher instances. These modules each leak sensitive information from vulnerable instances of the application which is intended to manage Kubernetes clusters. These are a great addition to...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

Pollution in Kibana This week, contributor h00die added a module that leverages a prototype pollution bug in Kibana prior to version 7.6.3. Particularly, this issue is within the Upgrade Assistant and enables an attacker to execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability can be triggered by sending a...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

Pumpkin Spice Modules Here in the northern hemisphere, fall is on the way: leaves changing, the air growing crisp and cool, and some hackers changing the flavor of their caffeine. This release features a new exploit module targeting Apache NiFi as well as a new and improved library to interact wi...

[Security Nation] Taki Uchiyama of Panasonic on Product Security and Incident Response

!\Security Nation\ Taki Uchiyama of Panasonic on Product Security and Incident Responsehttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/09/securitynationlogo-1.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod chat with Taki Uchiyama about his work on Panasonic’s Product Security Incident Response...

Recog: Data Rules Everything Around Me

The recog project — a recognition framework used to identify products, operating systems, and hardware through matching network probe data against its extensive fingerprint collection — has been around for many years. In the beginning, Rapid7 used it internally as part of the Nexpose vulnerabilit...

NICER Protocol Deep Dive: Internet Exposure of NTP

Welcome to the NICER Protocol Deep Dive blog series! When we started researching what all was out on the internet way back in January, we had no idea we'd end up with a hefty, 137-page tome of a research report. The sheer length of such a thing might put off folks who might otherwise learn a thin...

HaXmas Hardware Hacking

Usually, when you read an IoT hacking report or blog post, it ends with something along the lines of, "and that's how I got root," or "and there was a secret backdoor credential," or "and every device in the field uses the same S3 bucket with no authentication." You know, something bad, and the...

Vulntober: Multiple Mobile Browser Address Bar Spoofing Vulnerabilities

Today, we're announcing a coordinated vulnerability disclosure publication with our longtime mobile hacker friend, Rafay Baloch. If you'd like to just jump straight to the technical details for these vulnerabilities, I invite you to read his paper here. If you want to know more about why this...

Ransomware Groups Demystified: Lynx Ransomware

As part of our research and tracking of threats, Rapid7 Labs is actively monitoring new and upcoming threat groups and the ransomware domain is known for having a large number of them. In the Ransomware Radar Report, Rapid7 Labs shared the observation that in the first half of 2024, 21 new or...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 08/30/2024

A New Way to Encode PHP Payloads A new PHP encoder has been released by a community contributor, jvoisin, allowing a PHP payload to be encoded as an ASCII-Hex string. This can then be decoded on the receiver to prevent issues with unescaped or bad characters. Ray Vulnerabilities This release of...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

I like to MOVEit, MOVEit, We like to MOVEit! Party hard just like it's Mardi Gras! bwatters-r7 delivered the dance moves this week with a masterful performance. The windows/http/moveitcve202334362 module is available for all your party needs, taking advantage of CVE-2023-34362, this module gets...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

Scanner That Pulls Sensitive Information From Joomla Installations This week's Metasploit release includes a module for CVE-2023-23752 by h00die. Did you know about the improper API access vulnerability in Joomla installations, specifically Joomla versions between 4.0.0 and 4.2.7, inclusive? This...

Rapid7’s Impact from OpenSSL Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-3786 & CVE-2022-3602)

As stated in our OpenSSL Buffer Overflow blog post, the CVE-2022-3786 & CVE-2022-3602 vulnerabilities affecting OpenSSL’s 3.0.x versions both rely on a maliciously crafted email address in a certificate. CVE-2022-3786 can overflow an arbitrary number of bytes on the stack with the “.” character a...

2022 Planning: Prioritizing Defense and Mitigation Through Left of Boom

In the military, the term “left of boom" refers to the strategy and tactics required to prevent — and protect personnel from — explosions by making proactive decisions before the event happens. Unless you've been fortunate enough to avoid tech and media press for the past 24 months, it should be...

Hands-On IoT Hacking: Rapid7 at DefCon IoT Village, Part 2

In our last post, we discussed how we set up Rapid7's hands-on exercise at the Defcon 29 IoT Village. Now, with that foundation laid, we'll get into how to determine whether the header we created is UART. When trying to determine baud rate for IoT devices, I often just guess. Generally, for typic...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

An Especially Spooky Season for Moodle This release has not one, two, or three, but FOUR authenticated Moodle exploit modules, or should I say moodules? H00die comes through again with not just modules, but also an artisanal, bespoke library to support further work. Two target the spell check...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Vulnerability is in the eye of the beholder Exploiting firmware authored by UDP Technology and provided to multiple large OEMs including Geutebruck, community contributor TrGFxX has authored a neat module that allows RCE as root on machines running the web interface of the Geutebruck G-Cam and...